Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DELHI--President Nur Mohammed Taraki of Afghanistan resigned the presidency and leadership of the ruling party here yesterday, as intensifying rebel warfare and political dissension pushed the country into turmoil...
Although they maintain friendly relations with their rebel counterparts in Central America, Nicaragua's new rulers appear too preoccupied by their internal problems to lend much assistance to their cause. They have gone so far as to ask the U.S. to supply them with modern weapons to replace the outmoded arms they used to topple Somoza's regime...
...were to recognize Israel's right to exist, however, Jerusalem would not accept the P.L.O. as the legitimate bargaining agent for the Palestinians. Begin, who was released from his hospital bed last week after treatment for a blood clot that has impaired his vision somewhat, is certain to rebel at any U.S. attempt to dignify the P.L.O. and bring it into the West Bank negotiations. Says one senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official bluntly: "The problem facing Americans is how to involve the Palestinians in the autonomy talks without losing Israel as a participant...
...administration implicitly admitted the error of the Somoza reign in its close negotiations with opposition Sandinistas and its insistence that Somoza and Urcuyo immediately hand over control of the country. In its obsequious eagerness to establish relations with the rising star of the Sandinistas, the U.S. dealt meekly with rebel leaders, saving heavyweight tactics for Somoza and his troupe. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher informed Somoza that if interim President Urcuyo continued to bollix the transferral of power to the rebels by refusing to give up U.S. Characteristically, the U.S. approached the problem of Urcuyo's last stand...
...good fight. China and Japan have formed a "co-prosperity sphere" in Hackett's rosy future, and play no part in the war. Valiant Afrikaaners defend their homeland from the incompetent assaults of Soviet-supplied Namibians and Zimbabwians. As the Soviet drive into West Germany falters, Soviet satellites rebel, soldiers stop fighting, and a high-level coup in the Kremlin leads to a break-up of the entire Soviet Union--the internal contradictions of Marxism-Leninism, y'know...